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2 Days Dujiangyan Panda Volunteer and Food Tour to Sichuan Cuisine Museum

  • Making Pixian Chili Bean Paste in Cuisine Museum

    Making Pixian Chili Bean Paste in Cuisine Museum

  • Traditional Local Snacks in Sichuan

    Traditional Local Snacks in Sichuan

  • Giant Panda

    Giant Panda

    Tour Outline: 2 Days & 1 Night
    Chengdu - Dujiangyan Panda Base - Chengdu - Sichuan Cuisine Museum - Chengdu

    Trip Overview

    In this 2-day panda tour, you will experience the two very important things in Sichuan: Panda and Sichuan Cuisine. Get very close to Pandas, clean dorms for them, make lunch for them and even feed them all by yourself and never forget this unique experience of intimate contact with Pandas!

    You can also learn about the history and method of cooking Sichuan Cuisine, you can try to cook by yourself, taste pure traditional Sichuan Cuisine and view antiques of Sichuan Cuisine, letting you get close to Sichuan Cuisine from all perspective! After getting home, your family and friends will be surprised of your Sichuan Cuisine cooking skills!

    Join us in our 2-day classic Panda Volunteer and Sichuan Cuisine tour now!

    • Feed a panda with your own hands at a very close distance;
    • Watch a special documentary movie about panda’s life cycle;
    • Receive a unique certificate proving your love to pandas;
    • Discover the history of Sichuan cuisine that dating back about 2,500 years ago;
    • See the ancient cookers that local people used over the past few thousand years;
    • Taste authentic Sichuan dishes and local snacks;
    • Learn to make the famous Sichuan cuisine, such as Mapo Tofu and Kung Pao Chicken, under the direction of the local Chef.

    • Best Time to Visit

      All year round

    • Physical Demands

      Very leisure tour; zero physical demand

    Day by Day Itinerary

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    Day 1: Giant Panda Volunteer Program at Dujiangyan Panda Base

    Giant Panda at Dujiangyan Panda Base

    You may have a chance to feed the panda

    Dujiangyan Panda Valley

    Pandas in Dujiangyan Panda Valley

    7:00am Picked up by your tour guide
    In the early morning, your tour guide & driver will pick you up from your hotel in Chengdu and then drive to the Dujiangyan Panda Base.

    8:30am - 09:00am Arrive at the Dujiangyan Panda Base and sign up
    In the base, you will get a uniform, gloves, and a volunteer’s card with the assistance of your guide. Your guide will introduce you to the professional panda keepers. The panda keepers can speak simple English but your guide will be there for you at all times, helping to translate and taking memorable photos of you with the lovable pandas.

    9:00am - 10:00am Clean the panda enclosures
    Panda keepers need to supply fresh bamboo to these national treasures three times each day. The pandas usually eat only 30% of the bamboo, wasting 70% of it. You will need to sweep out the leftovers, replace it with fresh bamboo, and clean out the feces.

    10:00am - 11:00am Take a break and tour around the panda base 
    Have a relaxing walk in the well-paved base and listen to the legendary stories of these pandas. You will also have a chance to meet four naughty red pandas.

    11:00am - 11:30am Feed a panda 
    Pandas are supplied with panda cakes, apples, and carrots four times a day. The panda keepers will show you how to feed a panda with your own hands at close proximity.

    11:30am - 1:00pm Have lunch and a rest in the base

    1:00pm - 2:00pm Watch a panda movie that lasts for about 40 minutes
    You will see a special documentary about how the shy pandas mate, give birth, grow up, and are returned to the wild.

    2:00pm - 3:30pm More cleaning and feeding, and making panda’s cakes
    The bamboo you supplied in the morning will have become dry by the afternoon. Remove it and replace it with fresh bamboo. Then feed the pandas with some more panda cakes and apples. Having fed the pandas with panda cakes, aren’t you curious as to how they are made? It is time to make some panda cakes with your own hands. The ingredients will be prepared in advance. Get creative about the shapes of the cakes.

    3:30pm - 4:00pm Get a certificate, and drive back to Chengdu
    The volunteer work ends here and you will receive a certificate for this unforgettable day. Say goodbye to the pandas you take care of.

    Your guide and driver will escort you back to your hotel in Chengdu.

    Notice:
    A donation program that allows you to take pictures with a panda next to you for about one minute is not included in the Panda Volunteer Program. It is only available in Dujiangyan Panda Base and the donation amount is CNY1,800 per person. Only 30 tourists are allowed to take close-up photos with pandas each day. If you would like to do, please feel free to tell us or reserve 1 Day Dujiangyan Panda Holding Tour from Chengdu.

    The age restriction of volunteer program is between 12 to 65 years old ( there is no restriction for holding a lovely panda ). Even though the pandas look harmless, they are carnivores. Parents must ensure that they prevent their children from coming into direct contact with the pandas.

    If your children are between 2–11 years old, you can still take them with you during the program. Your guide will help to take care of them. If your children are under 2 years old and you take care of them throughout the day.

    Stay overnight in Chengdu

    • Drive 90 minutes from Chengdu to Dujiangyan
    • Altitude: Chengdu (540m)
    • Internet & Wifi: No
    • Hotel: No
    • Meals: Lunch

    Day 2: Chengdu Gourmet Tour to Sichuan Cuisine Museum

    Pixian chili bean paste in the courtyard

    The Famous Pixian Chili Bean Paste Ferments in the Courtyard

    Sichuan Cuisine Cooking Class

    Sichuan Cuisine Cooking Class in the Cuisine Museum

    After breakfast, your guide and driver will pick you up from your hotel in Chengdu and drive to the Sichuan Cuisine Museum, which is located in Pixian County in western Chengdu. As the first museum with a theme of regional cooking culture in the world, Sichuan Cuisine Museum is the best place to learn the history of the famous Sichuan cuisine, as well as experience how to make an authentic Sichuan dish.

    When you arrive in Sichuan Cuisine Museum, you could visit the main hall houses, where thousands of relics of cooking utensils hold. You could learn the history of Sichuan cuisine that dating back to about 2,500 years ago, in the Hall of Classical-collection Exhibition. There are great collection of books and records that vividly show the portrait of the rich culture of Sichuan cuisine, one of the most popular regional cuisines in China, even among the world.

    Keeping on visiting the museum, you will see many antique treasure of the ancient Sichuan. And in the small farm in the courtyard, you could see how the famous Pixian Chili Bean Paste ferments in clay jars.

    The most fantastic part of this foodie tour is to take a cooking class there and learn the authentic Sichuan dishes from local chefs. There is an English menu for you to choose, once you decided which to learn, the chef will teach you hand by hand. When you fished, you could sit down and enjoy the dish you just made. What a wonderful experience!

    After the tour, our guide will take you back to Chengdu and end the gourmet tour in Chengdu.

    Price Details & Guide

    Price Inclusions
    1. Private transportation to the destinations and sites listed in the itinerary; ranging from 4WD land cruiser to bus depending on the group size and trip route; car gasoline, road toll and in-transport refreshments (free bottles of water, air pillow and headscarf) are included;
    2. Private experienced English-speaking trip leader;
    3. Airport/railway station pick-up and send-off services at the beginning/end of the tour;
    4. Entrance ticket fees for all the sight spots listed in the itinerary;
    5. First aid kit;
    6. A coverage of 300,000RMB Chartis travel insurance;
    7. Volunteer fees in Panda Base;
    8. Lunch at Panda Base;
    Price Exclusions
    1. International and domestic flight/train to Chengdu (Note: we accept the domestic flight/train tickets booking to Chengdu from other cities in advance, check the updated ticket availibility and cost with your travel consultant);
    2. Meals that are not specified in the itinerary (Averagely a meal in the 3rdpole region cost 3~10USD per person);
    3. Tips and gratuities for the trip leader and driver;
    4. The expense of a personal nature like alcoholic beverages, laundry, phone call, etc;
    5. Optional activities and excursions not specified in the itinerary;
    6. China Entry visa fees;
    Itinerary Alteration

    Once we receive your tour deposit, which is followed by signing the contract, your reservation is secured with legitimacy. Our staff will reserve the accommodation, vehicle, site tickets, meals and more, and pay the deposit for our suppliers. So if you want to alter to another itinerary, you need to cover the deposit we've paid, while no service charge is needed if you make some changes on the itinerary you booked.

    Cancellation and Refund Policy

    If you cancel the tour because of your personal issues, you will be liable to pay cancellation charges that are bounded by 3rdpoletour.com cancellation policy as follows:

    1.) If you cancel the tour more than 30 days before the trip starts, you will forfeit 10% of the total land cost per person;
    2.) If you cancel the tour 15-30 days prior to your trip start date, 20% of your total land tour cost will be forfeited as a cancellation fee.
    3.) If you cancel the tour 7-15 days before the trip starts, you will forfeit 30% of land cost.
    4.) If you cancel the tour 7 days prior to your tour start date, you will forfeit 50% of land cost.
    5.) If you fail to show up or cancel at your scheduled arrival time without prior notice or later than that, you will forfeit 100% of the land cost.

    If the tour has to be cancelled because of the natural disaster or the government restrictions that is beyond both parties control, we will charge only USD50 per person, this is just the service fee and larbor fee during the preparation. This is a rare occurrence!

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